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Don Lemon Goes Off On Obama For Exchanging Pleasantries With Trump At Carter’s Funeral

The former CNN host did not mince words as he went off on this country's first Black president.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 13, 2025
Politics, Politics

Wait, What? Conservatives Are Blaming The L.A. Wildfires On DEI…Oh, It Gets Worse

Conservatives like Matt Walsh claimed the "exclusion" of white men has only heightened the crisis.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 12, 2025
Politics

Lip Reader Decodes What Trump And Obama Discussed At President Carter’s Funeral, Internet Drags Husband Of GOP Senator Who Disrespected VP Harris, Trump Plans To Rename Gulf Of Mexico, Black America Reacts To Trump’s ‘Hush Money’ Case Sentencing And More

The Root's most politically charged stories from the week.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 11, 2025
Politics, Politics

Updated: Lip Reader Claims Trump Said This to Obama at President Carter’s Funeral, And Here’s Our Take. You Decide.

We don't have any audio from the event, so we had lots of fun guessing what the two were talking about.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

January 10, 2025
Politics

Black America is Losing it Over Trump’s ‘Hush Money’ Case Sentencing

To absolutely no one's surprise, the president-elect got off without even a slap on the wrist.

By

Phenix S Halley

Published

January 10, 2025
Politics, Politics

Was Biden’s Presidency Bad Or Good For Black America? Here’s the Tea

As America bids farewell to the Biden administration, The Root takes a look at what it accomplished.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 10, 2025
Politics

Trump, Obama Seen Laughing Together At Jimmy Carter’s Funeral, and the Internet is More Than Confused About it

After birth certificate conspiracies and years of name-calling, the two former presidents were able to put differences aside.

By

Phenix S Halley

Published

January 9, 2025
Politics, Politics

This New Move By Biden Will Have Black Folks’ Credit Scores Looking a Lot Better

VP Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that $49 billion would be removed from credit reports.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 8, 2025
Politics, Politics

Trump Wants to Change the Gulf Of Mexico to the ‘Gulf Of America,’ But Can He Actually Do That??

The President-elect floated the idea around at a news conference Tuesday.

By

Candace McDuffie

Published

January 7, 2025
News

Why Costco, Unlike McDonald’s and Walmart, Is Not Chickening Out By Rolling Back It’s DEI Initiatives

McDonald's is the latest U.S. corporation to back away from DEI, but Costco isn't following suit.

By

Phenix S Halley

Published

January 7, 2025